Arrivals

I know nothing of Michael White but I'd guess he's British. The filming and scenes have that high quality that one just doesn't get from Americans except on HBO or premium channels. Each episode also isn't filled with stupid, improbable thrills and spills. Chases. I love that there's no trendy awful pop soundtrack. You know the music people blare while washing their car. Some say it's boring because it doesn't work like Marvel Cinematic Universe. Me I think Marvel hero movies are boring.

This is what came to me after watching the first episode of this show, weird and eccentric characters combined with mixed British humor as Murray Bartlett playing Armand character and the other American "stigmatic" characters.

Great cinematography&editing, funny and witty with great actors!

Let's see how this show goes on...

I know this is the first episode of a series I know nothing about but at the moment I am bored. The characters are unlikeable but that isn't the only problem. This series at the moment doesn't have a plot I am engaging with. The manager is my favourite character. You have the cringy youth, creepy and lonely stalker lady. Newly wed couple and the classic upper class parents. The series focuses on the exploits of guests but none of them are relatble or likeable or at the very least interesting.

The White Lotus is a luxury resort in Hawaii. A new group of guests has just arrived: there's the newlyweds, the family - husband, wife, teenaged daughter and friend, teenaged son - and the solo middle-aged holidayer. One of them will be dead within a week.

I wasn't entirely sure what to expect with this series. On face value it seems intriguing enough and the high IMDB rating made me think it's worth a watch. Having now watched the first episode I'm wondering how on Earth it got such a high rating.

The most striking thing about the first episode is that it is almost entire devoid of likeable characters: Almost everyone is incredibly irritating: the spoiled-brat daughter and friend, the vacuous, always-staring-at-phone son, the overcontrolling celebrity mother, the paranoid father, the hyper-anxious, high-maintenance, talkative-yet-dull solo woman, the newlywed guy who is always looking for faults.

The only likeable character among the guests is Rachel Patton (Alexandra Daddario) but indications are she's not going to live more than a week, making any engagement with her quite limited.

The resort manager, Armond (Murray Bartlett), is easily the most colourful character and pretty much the only thing preventing this from being an incredibly drab affair. The plot is pretty basic and dull at this point but this being the first episode it's currently more about scene-setting and character-introduction than plot development so is to be expected, to an extent. Would be nice to have some engaging characters though...

Also, apparently this is a comedy. You wouldn't know that from this episode.

This looks very promising. I have a feeling the mix between humor and realism will be on point and this show is lowkey a fat lady pretending is not pregnant about to give birth to a nice dark comedy baby.